Area Has Been Calm in Recent Years, Breaking From a Complex and Dangerous Past

The violence at Bryant Park on Saturday night—gunshots at the ice-skating rink that left two people injured—was a rare reminder of the area's complex and dangerous past.

As police questioned a teenager Sunday evening and suggested the shooting was over an expensive jacket, some of the park's regulars said they were stunned at having to grapple with serious crime in a place that's been transformed from an open-air drug market to a...